The Frontier Sixshooter Community Message Board - A S&W Da revolr would be great

A S&W Da revolr would be great (reply)

Rob Leahy — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 04:29:51 +0000

or just about anything that crosses your mind.

This is the press I use for decapping (reply)

Kentucky — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:16:26 +0000

http://leeprecision.com/reloader-press.html

You occasionally see then used at gun shows for like ten bucks.

Nope, one size fits all. (reply)

Kentucky — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:06:56 +0000

They are available from most of the die manufacturers.

You don't have to have a dedicated press for it, but it sure makes it handy if you have the space available.

I'll give it a "whirl"... (reply)

pokynojoe — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:55:16 +0000

Don't really need any gun leather though. I guess if we ever run into each other you can buy me a beer.

They made me "retire" my t-square and engineers scale at work. I was the last hold out. They took away my drafting table and installed a cad program on my computer at work. They said "start using it", I said "I don't know how", they said "learn"! I now know just enough to be dangerous.

What do you have in mind?

Joe

Primer pockets (reply)

Catoosa — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:44:48 +0000

Art, Lee makes a universal decapping die that works for most everything. I have mine set up in an inexpensive Lee Partner press that I have bolted to a piece of 2x4 and C-clamped to my bench. When it gets all crudded up with primer residue, I unclamp it and take it outside, hose it off with Gunscrubber, then dry, relube it and clamp it back down. Keeps that nasty, abrasive primer residue away from my good presses, and they almost never need cleaning.

BTW, for those who, like me, are anal about clean cases and primer pockets, a short length of the old pencil-type typewriter eraser sticks chucked up in s drill motor makes the best primer pocket cleaner to be had. Trim the wood back just a bit deeper than a primer pocket by using a sharp knife like a lathe turning tool while the eraser stick spins. Leave the rubber part full diameter for large primer pockets, and turn it down a bit for small ones. Needs to be just slightly loose in the pocket or the rubber will twist off as it spins. When you get it right, it's good for several hundred cases before the tip needs to be recut, and it leaves the pockets clean and shiny with just a touch. Only problem is finding the dern eraser sticks - typewriters are about extinct now, and so are the erasers. Might be something similar for the power erasers used by draftsmen.

I have not cleaned them in 30 years (reply)

Bj2 — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:36:17 +0000

Little of this a little of that........... (reply)

Byron — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:34:45 +0000

Most of my shooting that involves reloading is 5.56mm, 7.62mm, 9mm and .357. The rifle brass goes to a local guy with the fancy automatic factory line stuff and comes back small base sized, trimmed to length, neck turned, primer pockets cleaned and sized to spec and polished until the case shines like new money...$30 per 1000...good enought for the girls that I go with...a premium product...They used to seat primers, recrimp and seal with red lacquer...just like new...no more...liability in the priming opeation and all....to bad...that was nice....anyway for the price of a couple of double Crowns on ice I save hours of time at the bench...I don't mind reloading...but its kinda like washing dishes...rather someone do it for me....

Fired pistol brass goes into a tumbler for a bit....something between an hour or a week...depends on when I get back down to the barn....then through the 550...looks good...no muss...no fuss....I have been called an equipment operator instead of a reloader...fine....

Byron

No special primer pocket efforts (reply)

Art — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:56:55 +0000

Is this deprime only die caliber specific? If it is not I think I will try it out. I wouldn't want to buy four more dies.

Art

Primer pockets (reply)

Mark — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:56:24 +0000

I don't clean primer pockets. I tumble my brass with the spent primer still in the pocket for about 15-20 minutes (anymore time just makes the brass look nicer). Then I size and decap all in the same motion. The primer seats when the handle goes forward. There no time to clean the pocket in that procedure!
Mark

...and you can't draw either! Actually, I was going to ask (reply)

Rob Leahy — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:52:58 +0000

you if I could trade out some gunleather for one of those slip shod tracing's of yours, for a revolver?
background, I once asked Joe for a outline trace of his S&W 9mm...he sent me a beautifully done blue print. All my AK Pipeline Engineer friends were pleased.

Details. (reply)

JLF — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:57:50 +0000

I was always very carefull and precise with my actual reloading, especially the charging step, and I was very picky about clean bullet bases. I think that went a long way in preventing all the ways a dud can occur. I also had no interest in max-load wrist snappers, the shortest route to problems. With guys like benchrest shooters, etc. I can certainly understand the desire to eliminate every possible variable. But I did most combat related stuff, plinking, and the occasional bullseye match. My ammo worked fine for my uses.

JLF

No special primer pocket efforts (reply)

Kentucky — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:16:25 +0000

I set up a dedicated deprime-only die in a little cheapo LEE press. Immediately after shooting, I deprime the cases and throw them into the tumbler with crushed walnut shells. When they come out of the tumbler, the primer pockets are as clean as I need them to be. I then run the cases thru my carbide sizing die and the depriming pin in this die removes any little bit of tumbling media stuck in the flash holes.

This procedure allows me to run only clean cases thru my sizing dies. Been doing it this way for many, many years and I'm quite happy with the results.

JMHO of course. YMMV

Slovenly reloading. (reply)

Bud — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:08:56 +0000

High primers in CAS is a killer, so I clean primer pockets on ammo I will be using in that game.

Slovenly reloading. (reply)

pokynojoe — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:57:29 +0000

Wow, I thought I would be the only "slouch" here. I'm pretty close to mirroring you. With a couple of exceptions. I still only use a single loading press. And, I occasionally, when the brass gets real dirty, mix up a bucket of dishwashing detergent, let 'em soak for awhile, give 'em a quick brush over, and then let 'em dry in the sun. I've never cleaned primer pockets. I once asked some of the "benchresters" at my club if they did this, when the guy chuckled at me, I figured why bother.

Slovenly reloading. (reply)

Art — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:34:59 +0000

Interesting. I think I have been too anal with my reloading. Might start backing off a bit with my methods and see how it goes.

Art

+1 JLF (reply)

Bob Hatfield — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:50:30 +0000

Slovenly reloading. (reply)

JLF — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:40:21 +0000

I reloaded thousands of rounds over maybe 15 years. I never owned a tumbler, and never tumbled a case. Never cleaned a primer pocket. I never bought a round of new brass. I once broke a decapper pin on a rock stuck down in a case.:) I never counted reloads, and only tossed a case when it split. I started with a Lee Loader, a set of dippers and a hammer, and ended with a Dillon. My ammo weren't pretty, but it shot like brand new, and I never had any kind of dud. This is not a recommendation, I'm just happy about all that work I didn't do.:)

JLF

Primer pockets (reply)

Charles — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 02:15:14 +0000

There is absolutely no need or benefit to cleaning primer pockets. That said, I always do it on rifle cases. Why..just because, that is why!

I don't clean handgun primer pockets. If I put the cases in a cleaner, I do so after in the fired condition. I then deprime and size and reprime.

I do not like carbide dies!!!!! They oversize cases and I am not a high volume shooter anymore. I use 50s and 60's steel dies and am much happier. Lubing and wiping off the finished round is normal for me.

Primer pockets (reply)

bob — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:53:51 +0000

REPTILE! bedding.......

Primer pockets (reply)

bob — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 01:51:13 +0000

i tumble mine in reptire bedding, primer pockets come out reasonably clean. for my 'very best' rifle loads i do take an extra minute and clean the pockets, but for range ammo, nope.
bob